Gaspar de crayer biography of williams
Gaspar de crayer biography of williams
Gaspar de crayer biography of williams county.
Gaspar de Crayer
Flemish painter (1584–1669)
Gaspar de Crayer or Jasper de Crayer[1] (18 November 1584 – 27 January 1669) was a Flemish painter known for his many Counter-Reformationaltarpieces and portraits.
He was a court painter to the governors of the Southern Netherlands and worked in the principal cities of Flanders where he helped spread the Rubens style.[2][3]
Life
Gaspar de Crayer was born in Antwerp as the son of Gaspard de Crayer the Elder, a decorative painter, illuminator and art dealer.[4] His mother Christina van Abshoven or Apshoven descended from a family of painters who at the time enjoyed some fame, but whose work is barely known now.[5] Rather than stay in Antwerp, he looked for opportunity in the capital Brussels.
He is believed to have studied under Raphael Coxie, the court painter of the governors of the Spanish NetherlandsAlbert VII, Archduke of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia.[6